The Guardian - Cryptic - January 11 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

 The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 27,403 - Jan 11 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

Clues	Answers
'Brussels' officer in charge of a controversial selection procedure	EUGENIC
All-round experts in HE establishment no longer having single academic discipline	POLYMATHS
Baddie having a brief time in wicked place?	DEMON
Birds making sad noises, any number gone	MOAS
Calling someone concerned about recreational drug	CAREER
Care for less than a shilling in old money	TEND
Cold time of austerity with me put in as PM	CLEMENT
Crude weapon that could be nasty problem to British	PETROLBOMB
Dark, 'orrible place to the north hiding bright light — quite the opposite	SULLEN
Ear's twitching after second bit of gossip	OTIC
Farming complex needs good stretch of country	GRANGE
Firm doing better as result of masterstroke	COUP
Hide male in a foul cage after beating	CAMOUFLAGE
Host in minimal attire outside front of restaurant	THRONG
How we count, see, showing passion	INTENSELY
Legal right allowing oriental fellows to occupy their quarter	EASEMENT
Plain course of action read out	STEPPE
Row, given time, leads to blood	LINEAGE
School flooded by water — an event on a special day there?	SPEECH
See 2	COCHRAN
Sign up to introduce honoured member producing a European code	ENUMBER
Speed with which wine goes to head after end of lunch	HASTINESS
Spirit a Parisian gets before feast	UNDINE
The reporter initially has to keep working for the Times	THUNDERER
Try to recruit leader, one for Everest expedition	HEADHUNT
Unusual sonata, nothing to be missed, this person's penned?	SMETANA
US singer's CD reached No 1, surprisingly	EDDIE
What may come from inane impostor?	IMPERSONATION
What's obviously right is repressed by president endlessly	TRUISM